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The Macabresque

Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-making

By: Edward Weisband

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The Macabresque

Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-making

By: Edward Weisband

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But if the main goal is death, why is torture necessary? By understanding how and why mass violence occurs and the reasons for its variations, The Macabresque aims to explain why so many seemingly normal or "ordinary" people participate in mass atrocity across cultures and why such egregious violence occurs repeatedly through history.

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0190677880

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9780190677886

Teaching World Politics

Contending Pedagogies For A New World Order

By: Lev S. Gonick,Edward Weisband

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Teaching World Politics

Contending Pedagogies For A New World Order

By: Lev S. Gonick,Edward Weisband

In this volume, scholars and teachers share ideas about new ways to teach history, culture and theory, as well as new topics such as gender, information flows and discourse. This book is the product of a series of roundtable discussions conducted under the auspices of the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association. At both the 1991 Meetings in Vancouver and the 1992 Meetings in Atlanta we were extremely gratified by the response to our roundtables on Teaching World Politics in the 1990s.

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Routledge

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1000313964

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9781000313963

Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States

By: Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas

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Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States

By: Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas

This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, and hyphenated identities are engaged. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories. The book concludes with a study of the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and the political cultures of violation in post-colonial Rwanda and in racialized ethno-political conflicts in various parts of the world. Struggles over legitimacy in nation-building and state-building are at the heart of this new take on the important role of political culture.

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Routledge

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1317254090

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Poverty Amidst Plenty

World Political Economy And Distributive Justice

By: Edward Weisband

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Poverty Amidst Plenty

World Political Economy And Distributive Justice

By: Edward Weisband

Edward Weisband's pioneering text is destined to transform the current teaching of world political economy at both the introductory and the advanced level. Outlining the moral principles and ethical concepts fundamental to grasping the human significance of poverty, he clearly reveals what is often hinted at but rarely stated–that the political dimensions of poverty and distributive justice constitute the organizing framework of the study of world political economy. Against a backdrop of readings, Professor Weisband's insightful, interpretative essays generate an interdisciplinary discussion, a synthesis of theoretical perspectives and value orientations, providing students with a critical comprehension of the complex workings of the world economy. The essays link basic approaches to world politics and international relations, international law and organization, international sociology, development studies, and moral philosophy to give texture to such basic theories as modes of production, dependency, world systems, unequal exchange, the labor theory of value, free-trade liberalism, neomercantilism, Marxism, and neo-Marxism. Alternative value orientations are also explored, including realist and neo-realist, conservative and liberal, egalitarian and cosmopolitan, radical and materialist. Poverty Amidst Plenty combines theory and analysis with historical and normative perspectives to offer students a relevant, prescriptive, and most of all, human picture of the far-reaching system that governs much of our lives.

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261

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Routledge

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1000307867

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The Counterintelligence Chronology

Spying by and Against the United States from the 1700s through 2014

By: Edward Mickolus

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The Counterintelligence Chronology

Spying by and Against the United States from the 1700s through 2014

By: Edward Mickolus

Spying in the United States began during the Revolutionary War, with George Washington as the first director of American intelligence and Benedict Arnold as the first turncoat. The history of American espionage is full of intrigue, failures and triumphs--and motives honorable and corrupt. Several notorious spies became household names--Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, the Walkers, the Rosenbergs--and were the subjects of major motion pictures and television series. Many others have received less attention. This book summarizes hundreds of cases of espionage for and against U.S. interests and offers suggestions for further reading. Milestones in the history of American counterintelligence are noted. Charts describe the motivations of traitors, American targets of foreign intelligence services and American traitors and their foreign handlers. A former member of the U.S. intelligence community, the author discusses trends in intelligence gathering and what the future may hold. An annotated bibliography is provided, written by Hayden Peake, curator of the Historical Intelligence Collection of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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McFarland

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147662240X

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Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy

By: G. Edward White

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Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy

By: G. Edward White

For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many minds. Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class childhood in Baltimore and his brilliant success at Harvard to his later career as a self-made martyr to McCarthyism--to paint a fascinating portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie. White catalogs the evidence that proved Hiss's guilt, from Whittaker Chambers's famous testimony, to copies of State Department documents typed on Hiss's typewriter, to Allen Weinstein's groundbreaking investigation in the 1970s. The author then explores the central conundrums of Hiss's life: Why did this talented lawyer become a Communist and a Soviet spy? Why did he devote so much of his life to an extensive public campaign to deny his espionage? And how, without producing any new evidence, did he convince many people that he was innocent? White offers a compelling analysis of Hiss's behavior in the face of growing evidence of his guilt, revealing how this behavior fit into an ongoing pattern of denial and duplicity in his life. The story of Alger Hiss is in part a reflection of Cold War America--a time of ideological passions, partisan battles, and secret lives. It is also a story that transcends a particular historical era--a story about individuals who choose to engage in espionage for foreign powers and the secret worlds they choose to conceal. In White's skilled hands, the life of Alger Hiss comes to illuminate both of those themes.

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Oxford University Press

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0190288418

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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

By: Noam Chomsky,Edward S. Herman

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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

By: Noam Chomsky,Edward S. Herman

Analyzes U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa media and the role of the media in misreporting these policies.

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South End Press

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0896080900

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Individual and Group Privacy

By: Edward J. Bloustein,Nathaniel J. Pallone

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Individual and Group Privacy

By: Edward J. Bloustein,Nathaniel J. Pallone

In exploring a series of problems associated with privacy and the First Amendment, Bloustein defines individual and group privacy, distinguishing them from each other and related concepts. He also identifies the public interest in individual privacy as individual integrity or liberty, and that of group privacy as the integrity of social structure. The legal protection afforded each of these forms of privacy is illustrated at length, as is the clash between them and the constitutional guarantees of the First Amendment and the citizen's general right to know. In his final essay, Bloustein insists that the concept of group privacy is essential to a properly functioning social structure, and warns that it would be disastrous if this principle were neglected as part of an overreaction to the misuse of group confidences that characterized the Nixon era.

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Routledge

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1351319949

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Covering Islam

How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

By: Edward W. Said

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Covering Islam

How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

By: Edward W. Said

In this classic work, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world. "No one stuyding the relations between the West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work." --The New York Times Book Review From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed "Islam" as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. At the same time, Islamic countries use "Islam" to justify unrepresentative and often repressive regimes. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Covering Islam continues Edward Said's lifelong investigation of the ways in which language not only describes but also defines political reality.

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Vintage

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1101971592

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Mobilizing the Information Society

Strategies for Growth and Opportunity

By: Robin Mansell,William Edward Steinmueller

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Mobilizing the Information Society

Strategies for Growth and Opportunity

By: Robin Mansell,William Edward Steinmueller

This work offers an assessment of progress made towards the "information society". It begins from the premise that the construction of such a society in Europe is a dynamic process and that the journey towards a society so dependent upon digital information is far from straightforward.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198295561

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Poverty Amidst Plenty

World Political Economy And Distributive Justice

By: Edward Weisband

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Poverty Amidst Plenty

World Political Economy And Distributive Justice

By: Edward Weisband

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Introducing Public Administration

By: Jay M. Shafritz,Edward W. Russell

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Introducing Public Administration

By: Jay M. Shafritz,Edward W. Russell

* NEW! Annotated bibliographies and related web sites at the end of each chapter. * NEW! Sections on organization development (in the Organization Behavior chapter) and lying about sex (in the Ethics chapter). * EXPANDED! Coverage of government regulation (Ch. 1). * EXPANDED! Discussion of the nonprofit sector (Ch. 3). * A readable and humorous text that receives high ratings from students. * Each chapter begins with a vignette or Keynote presented in a storytelling format. These Keynotes are mini case studies that are often referred to in the chapter, thus reinforcing the overall themes or lessons of the stories. * Chapters typically deal with historical and theoretical developments and then explain how relevant concepts and practices are applied in the varying levels of government and in varying cultures. * Hundreds of boxed quotes from public administrators, charts, graphs, and photos give the text a student friendly and engaging design.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321044835

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The Macabresque

Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-making

By: Edward Weisband

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Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-making

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Teaching World Politics

Contending Pedagogies For A New World Order

By: Lev S. Gonick,Edward Weisband

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Teaching World Politics

Contending Pedagogies For A New World Order

By: Lev S. Gonick,Edward Weisband

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Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945

Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics

By: Edward Weisband

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Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945

Small State Diplomacy and Great Power Politics

By: Edward Weisband

As it became evident that the Allies were winning World War II, Turkish policy-makers struggled to achieve their objectives in the shifting circumstances of wartime diplomacy. Edward Weisband's detailed description of Turkish foreign policy from 1943 to 1945 reveals that it was complicated by the fact that its two principal aims dictated contradictory positions. The first aim was the priority of peace over expansionism—this implied a noninterventionist policy. On the other hand, the belief that the Soviet Union represented the primary threat to the security of the Republic often made intervention to contain Russia seem necessary for national defense. Turkish officials became determined to influence the postwar settlement towards an equilibrium among the great powers that would limit Soviet expansionism, which the Turks assumed they could not do alone. Consequently, they were among the first to envision the contours of the Cold War. After outlining the historical origins of the ideology that lay behind Turkish diplomacy, the first part of the book concentrates on the policy-making process in Ankara and assesses the relative influence of individual leaders and institutions. The second part analyzes both Turkey's responses to the exigencies of war and the general nature of small state diplomacy. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400872618

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The Macabresque

The Macabresque

Teaching World Politics

Teaching World Politics

Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States

Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States

Poverty Amidst Plenty

Poverty Amidst Plenty

The Counterintelligence Chronology

The Counterintelligence Chronology

Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

Individual and Group Privacy

Individual and Group Privacy

Covering Islam

Covering Islam

Mobilizing the Information Society

Mobilizing the Information Society

Poverty Amidst Plenty

Poverty Amidst Plenty

Introducing Public Administration

Introducing Public Administration

The Macabresque

The Macabresque

Teaching World Politics

Teaching World Politics

Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945

Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945

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